The Kukai - a haiku contest, where each person submits a haiku, and then, becomes a judge. When all the poems are compiled in a list, the contestants comment, vote, and give scores to poems of their choice. One cannot comment on, nor vote for one’s own poem. At the end of the voting process winners emerge, the selection based on votes by the kukai’s contestants.

#1; FIRST PLACEnew year's daythe smell of pickled herringon the cat's breath --Cindy TeboVotes:3-2-4*** ;Points:19 Comments: Great idea of having a hangover and looking for some sour tasting help. But the cat was faster - badluck.

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In the compendium of new beginnings, which the New Year offers, there is the detail of food. Why not strengten ourselves, with a mind to improving situations, along with our resolutions to improve our lives? You can read more on that idea at'Lucky Foods For The New Year' [http://www.epicurious.com/articlesguides/holidays/newyearsday/luckyfoods]

This kukai; kukai number nine emerged a winner who paid attention not only to the people in her family but also to her pet

Begining anew with attention to one's pet; there is a pertinent humanitarian quality here; one of caring, not just on the level of human to human , but of wider acceptance and inclusion, of a pet in the familyFeeding the family maybe an everyday act , but feeding the pet is an extension of caring in any family.

A truly AHA moment of haiku recorded

I was reading recently from WHR, a section of cat pet haiku the section is titled ' My Left-handed Black Cat by Atene Kawasaki/ Haiku about by friend after the death of his wife' [http://worldhaikureview.googlepages.com/myleft-handedblackcat] and the poem that was particularly striking for me was the one in which he questions himself about the situation of others of his cats family; this one the lucky one having strayed into his life;